The 21 best movie quotes of 2012: shawarma, Django and the ever-elusive merman

Alan Arkin (left) gets one of the year's best lines in "Argo."Courtesy photo

Funny how the best quotes come from either great films or terrible ones. To go along with my list of the best movies of the year (don’t worry, the worst of the year are coming soon), here are 21 amusing bits of dialogue I plucked from 2012’s releases: